Welcome to HURIC

OUR VISION

To influence the human rights implementation and reform approaches that are responsive to the respective East African Regional needs.

Our Mission

To research, document, Advocate and train trainers to disseminate the best practices in the region enabling the attainment of health and human rights implementation, and reform approaches that are responsive to respective regional needs employing the ...

Focus Group Discussion At PHA-4 In Bangladesh

Discussion Between PHM, HURIC, MMI & Wemos Under The Umbrella Of Health Worker For All Coalition. This Intently Focused On The Global Human Resources For Health Issues.

Human Rights Advocacy & Publications

Significant Areas Of Coverage
HURIC main focus areas have been on Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N), Human Resource for Health (HRH) have been the center ...

Human Rights Research & Documentation

Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC) combines the need for research and fact-finding opportunities which is manifested through research and Documentation.
We partner with organizations globally ...

Training of Trainers

The Training of Trainers replenishes Human Rights to be understood, cherished and promoted by everyone such that they benefit from them.
HURIC has aimed at creating and supporting informal networks of ...

This was a symposium organized by SEATINI, our member organizations in the People’s Health Movement-Uganda. Focused on the dynamics in the health sector at the global, regional and national level. Looking at a number of Trade Policies and Negotiations that are ongoing at policy level which, if poorly negotiated can […]

Analyzing the human resources for health (HRH) situation in Uganda. Focusing on the several aspects around the topic of HRH funding and health finance and the linkages with health systems strengthening; the current shortages, HRH policies, NHIS in Uganda, the WHO Code of recruitment, the donors’ environment and current donor-led […]

By Rachel Thompson on February 5, 2019 The conflation of treatment and prevention may be problematic in tackling NCDs Within Global Health, the issues around NCDs are being framed in terms of treatment solutions. Solutions that, for example, often involve public private partnerships to accelerate access to pharmaceutical products. This issue was evident in the […]

Obsolete mental health legislation in Uganda has a number of deficiencies such as failure to differentiate voluntary and involuntary care, inadequate protection and promotion of the human rights of people with mental illness and the presence of slurring and stigmatizing language; and henceforth not in line with the draft […]

By Michael Ssemakula and Denis Bukenya. UHC has remained in a shackled unachievable dream in Uganda due to the wave of liberalization and improper incorporation of the PPPs during the early 1990s into the health system with unclear regulations, objectives and conflicting interests. The woe with the PPPs in Uganda […]

Do you know the health system of your Country? An analysis on the Uganda’s domestic health financing towards Health workers through a paper on Simple Solutions For Complex Problems by our Health Rights Advocate Denis Joseph Bukenya on the Wemos Knowledge Platform, https://www.wemos.nl/en/simple-solutions-complex-problems/

By Denis Bukenya Joseph Health Rights Researcher And Advocate. How feasible are the SDGs as the global guiding instruments in achieving the the Health for All? With the existing and increasing variance in health accessibility between global south and north, how can countries narrow the inequality gap in health improvement […]

We presented on People’s Health Movement-Uganda and HURIC’s growing involvement in strengthening the social determinants of Health, through; social accountability initiatives such as, Active civic engagement through civil society organizations’ involvement, and Community participation as a new global paradigm in health systems strengthening. Experiences of the People’s Health Movement and […]

Discussion on how the right to food has been limited due to the private forces and liberalization, lack of information, limited access to social justice, gap in transpaency, suppy rigidities, ineffectiveness of cooperatives, Bufferstock system. And the rising use of GMOs through multi-state seed corporations like Mosanto.

We are so grateful for our HURIC team and PHM Network in Uganda for representing us at this global health conference in Bangladesh. It was such a remarkable event that opened space for the health rights activists and researchers from Uganda to share knowledge and experiences in their advocacy walk.